Secretary of State John Kerry has ruled out meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks on the Ukraine unless Russia unilaterally agrees to all US demands before the meeting.
Kerry said any talks would be “extremely difficult” so long as Russia backs Crimea, and other State Department officials say there will be “little to discuss” if Russia doesn’t force Crimea to halt its weekend referendum.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says the Crimean referendum is absolutely legal, and that Russia will respect the results of the vote. The US has said it will never accept the results.
The White House also issued a new statement on their ongoing deployment of a single ship to the Black Sea, saying Russia needs to “take note” of the deployment as proof of US military commitment to the region.
So its an honor and a privilege to even speak with Mr. Kerry? What is the point of having diplomats, then?
Kerry might get to talk to Lavrov – his equivalent.
The point is we don't HAVE any diplomats. How many real diplomats are going to say, before meeting with the opposition, you're going to do it my way or we're not going to talk. So, the US's diplomatic Corp has devolved to temper tantrums and taking their balls home (if they had any) when people don't kneel to them.
And people (in the US) wonder why the rest of the world has no respect for the US.
The USA trying to halt democracy in Crimea while supporting another illegal coup government, this one integrated by the neo-Nazi street fighters that overthrew the democratically elected president?
I'll tell you one thing, the Chagossians' jaws must be on the floor. This isn't the USA they know….
Kerry to Putin, we started all this for all of Ukraine not 1/3 of the country. We started all this for our NATO alliance to invade all of Ukraine and militarize it all not 1/3 of the country. So unless you give us all of Ukraine then we can talk, about what I don't know, but for know we are not talking to Putin, only to Ukrainian self proclaimed government one that consist of Neo, old and ok'd fascism.
While i agree with you, i'd go further and suggest that DC is only after the Crimea as well and Kiev is only useful to get the Russians to bugger off, That Vladimir has stolen the prize fair and square from under their nose, they are apoplectic with rage, not only for been outmaneuvered but being stuck with the dirt poor corrupt Ukraine.
While i agree with you, i'd go further and suggest that DC is only after the Crimea as well and Kiev is only useful to get the Russians to bugger off, That Vladimir has stolen the prize fair and square from under their nose, they are apoplectic with rage, not only for been outmaneuvered but being stuck with the dirt poor corrupt Ukraine.
In another word, Ukraine, Spain, Greece, Portugal and other western or eastern European corrupt government with a ruined economy will see to it that USG and EU bankruptcy masseur which is lined up to appear in a later time, if not sooner. But in 1930 before fascism took to power, wasn't the same economic scenario active as in Ukraine and many European government were cooperating with nazism, as they have started doing in Ukraine and rise of fascism all over Europe which many of these governments are in open cooperation with Neo fascism, these governments themselves are liberal fascist, like the Swedish government, the English, the new elected Norwegian, the Spanish, Greece conservatism which are the pavement for Neo fascism.
Kerry is such a child. Pouting makes for lousy diplomacy.
Someone should tell Lurch to hang up his hat and go home.
This resembles the Iran negotiations: Give up on all demands prior to negotiations.
If this happened, if Russia did accede to all US demands, there would indeed be “little to discuss”.
This resembles the Iran negotiations: Give up on all demands prior to negotiations.
If this happened, if Russia did accede to all US demands, there would indeed be “little to discuss”.
Russia should take this to the International Court of Justice in The Hague
Kerry is beyond a joke – he should be indicted or something just for being so completely wafer-thin and unconvincing. It's a national embarrassment to the US that such a retarded monkey is put up against Lavrov. This moron will end up putting the US into WW3 (just as he handlers hope) while convincing himself he's fighting for Apple Pie and Heinz Ketchup.
Kerry's "my way or the highway" style of diplomacy hasn't exactly worked out well in the past. It's not likely to do any better with Putin.
Kerry,and all of them,are following a script. Anyone still not believing these people are mere actors,in greater schemes must head this. NATO/EU/US,are doing exactly what Britain,did to Germany in 39. They refused to take;'Yes'for an answer,than declared war September 3,refusing any further discussion.Even of withdrawal ! People better wake up to true history,learn,and stop the political correctness for good. The Left/Right theater. The Establishment hates Putin,and they want war ,under any pretext. See :The Bad War.Com. THE UGLY TRUTH.COM
The likely result of deploying missiles on the border to Russia in Romania and Poland and on 32 ships in the Mediterranean Sea (4 now stationed in Cadiz), the so-called European Phased Adaptive Approach, will be Launch On Warning, probably by 2017 followed by Suicide by mistake. They are suicidal bloody fools in the Pentagon. For that reason the great missile engineer Bob Aldridge resigned and wrote The Counterforce Syndrome, First Strike! The Pentagon's Strategy For Nuclear War (also available in German, French and Danish), Nuclear Empire (ch. 9 on Anti-Submarine Warfare) and recently America In Peril. According to Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. GPS was made for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 to be able to hit missile silos accurately. Bob Aldridge on the new missiles in Eastern Europe: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." Professor J. Ed Anderson: "There is no doubt in my mind that deployment of anti-missile missiles in Eastern Europe is part of a first-strike strategy." The extent of their deception: The MX missile was called Peacekeeper. But when it was cancelled, the warhead was put on Minuteman-3. Why ? Because that warhead like the warhead on Trident-2 is designed to minimize Nuclear Winter effects if used against missile silos. "Bloody fools in the Pentagon" said General Harbottle. They think they can get away with a Disarming First Strike and only 1-3 % casualties in the US WITHOUT NUCLEAR WINTER. It's impossible to be more crazy, insane, bonkers, nuts, stupid than the bloody fools in the Pentagon. They are too stupid to understand that they can never make a Disarming First Strike because we'll commit Suicide through Launch On Warning. Please help explain it to the stupid fools in the Pentagon. Suicide in 3-4 years because the Pentagon is too stupid to understand that their aggression will result in Launch On Warning ?
Kerry is an obscenity, as is his task master occupying the oval office, the terminator in chief. Both will look good with Kerry's ketchup (actually his wife's ketchup) on their face. This is unmitigated arrogance denoting madness.
Russia needs to take all of the Ukraine. This is the subtext understood by Putin in Kerry's contemptible announcement.
The fact of the matter ("facts on the ground" as the US likes to state) are this: Russia can do whatever the fvck they want, and there is not SINGLE thing the US can do about it.
Russia is 100% in the right and the US is 100% in the wrong. Period.
All Obama and the EU has done is lost Crimea while the rest of the East descends into civil war. Look at Libya now… and that is the template. We will see pipelines attacked by the far-right or other terrorists to disrupt gas supplies to Europe; and America will use all the chaos to start exporting gas to Europe but with the price that Americans and their industry will pay more for gas. More jobs for Europe with cheap gas. Less jobs for America with expensive gas. That’s how Obama rolls!
There is a big problem with the whole story of gas. The "fracking revolution" that produced extra gas is a financial fraud. There was an invetigative report published based on the research and the intelligence by energy market analysts that are afraid of getting sucked into the problem. In the center of the problem is that the gas produced via fracking cannot be produced via any form of "final profitability' model. Thus far, the producers are borrowing to drill, but each well will drop its yield to only 10% after less then a year. To pay off the costs of the first well, another is started. This is why there are thousands upon thousands of wells. The analyst call this "producing energy by burning capital", and are afraid that the end result will be massive bailout of energy sector. So, the price of such gas is artificial, as nobody really can tell what is the real cost. This process is merely a propaganda tool designed to attact other countries to invest in fracking technology, and make Europe believe they do not need South Stream gas pipeline, as gas will be plentifull. Even if so, the process for liquifying gas and transit (via fosil fuel ships) is not exactly cheap or energy friendly. It may be that the fracking chicks have come home to roost on the pile of capital they borrowed.
If Obama were not in the Oval Office, the US would be doing the exact same thing.
A replacement drone would be president, but the war crimes would continue.
All Obama and the EU has done is lost Crimea while the rest of the East descends into civil war. Look at Libya now… and that is the template. We will see pipelines attacked by the far-right or other terrorists to disrupt gas supplies to Europe; and America will use all the chaos to start exporting gas to Europe but with the price that Americans and their industry will pay more for gas. More jobs for Europe with cheap gas. Less jobs for America with expensive gas. That’s how Obama rolls!
US can't supply the amount Russia is delivering now for years to come. The price (dumping aside) EU countries would have to pay for the ineffective shale production, transportation, de/liquefying can't be lower than Russian's gas.
Good move from Obama. Putin is the new Hitler.
Oh god! its the H-word.
wow, dumb comments are dumb. go back to sleep, John.
And Ghaddafi, Saddam, Milosevic, etc, Yawn…
Throw around the new Hitler this, the new Hitler that, ala Hitlery Clinton, you actually diminish what Hitler did.
Putin and these people are certainly not Hitlers. Where are all the corpses?
Another person who apparently regurgitates all the lies the MSM tells them.
U must have been living nder a stone the past few years.
Good move from Obama. Putin is the new Hitler.
And Ghaddafi, Saddam, Milosevic, etc, Yawn…
Throw around the new Hitler this, the new Hitler that, ala Hitlery Clinton, you actually diminish what Hitler did.
Putin and these people are certainly not Hitlers.
Kerry was apparently hit by a virulent strain of Boltonitis (a strange malady akin to "mad cow" disease).
"mad cow disease" in this case would be Hillary-it is?
So he refuses to agree to a meeting unless everything he demands is agreed to prior to the meeting! WTF? What is the point of even having a meeting then from the Russian perspective? Kerry is a suck who is taking his ball and going home! Why doesn't he demand Israel leave the west bank! LOL! And what about Kosovo? U.S. hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Recent history suggests the Russians should not believe anything the US tells them. Treaties and agreements will not be honored. Promises not kept . Kerry is a giant twerp of a man, like the rest of the prominent ruling establishment: All liars, starting with the BS Artist in Chief and right on down. Simple losers out to enrich themselves. They don't care one squat about this country…or the Ukrainian people for that matter.
And the Crimea is not part of Russia, how can they tell them to halt a referendum if Crimea is still an autonomous region in Ukraine.
Are taking about the same Kerry that lost to George W Bush in 2004….there were maybe two people in the country that could not beat Bush and Kerry was one of them…and now he is going to be telling Putin what to do…I don't think so…conquering a ketchup company is one thing…but Kerry's high point as a diplomat was right before he got sworn in…since then he has been all hat and a lot of bull…
Kerry is a worm. Just another Bohemian Grove paedophile and baby-sacrificer. Nixon, of all people, had it right: "their a bunch of fags".
He was being polite.
Obama on phone: Now listen here, Vladimir- the US will not…
Putin: Knock, knock
Obama: Who's there?
Putin: Crimea
Obama: Crimea who?
Putin: Crimea river, loser *click*